Later on, when she met her boyfriend, Sam, he used to walk ahead of her to avoid the pair being seen together.

Deciding enough was enough, Hadley joined her mother at a local Slimming World group.

After losing 5lb in her first week, she was hooked. To date, she’s lost 10 stone – and 16 dress sizes.

A typical daily diet for Hadley used to be a Full English breakfast with bacon, sausage, fried eggs and bread purchased from a local cafe, with pastries, cakes, crisps and sandwiches throughout the day followed by an evening meal of a takeaway pizza.

Now, she’ll eat a Slimming World-style “grill up” in the morning: low-fat sausages, lean bacon and beans. Lunch will be a homemade pasta salad, while dinner will be a homemade “fakeaway” like curry or a Chinese dish.

Of her incredible weight loss journey, Hadley says: “It’s been a brilliant experience, I feel like a queen right now, I cannot believe this has happened.